The New Realities: In Government and Politics/in Economics and Business/in Society and World View - Hardcover

Drucker, Peter Ferdinand

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0060161299 ISBN 13: 9780060161293

Publisher: Harpercollins, 1989

Synopsis

Offers an incisive analysis of the key business trends, issues, and developments of the near future and their potential ramifications--in terms of both problems and opportunities--for America and the world

About this title

About the Author:

Peter F. Drucker has been Clarke Professor of Social Science and Management at Claremont Graduate School in California since 1971.

From Publishers Weekly:

Challenging conventional wisdom, management-guru Drucker argues that America's sagging economic status has not resulted from a failure of its manufacturing base, but instead from the worldwide collapse in the 1980s of commodity exports and prices. The success of "Japan Inc.," in his assessment, illustrates the importance of a close government-business relationship, not the need for central planning. Author of some 20 books, Drucker has provocative things to say here on excessive military spending ("perhaps the major cause" of our loss of competitiveness) and environmental problems that, in his view, demand a "transnational" approach. His vision of a "post-business" society, however, where "knowledge workers" flourish and voluntary "third-sector" organizations forge bonds of community, seems unrealistic. Among the topics he broaches are the "Russian Empire," school reform, "information-based organizations" and management as a liberal art.
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harpercollins
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0060161299
• ISBN 13: 9780060161293
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 276